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  • 2012 Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program

    A summer study program in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany and Israel
    for secondary school teachers.

    The Summer Seminar Program on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance was initiated by Vladka Meed in 1984. This year's program is scheduled for July 1-20, 2012. This seminar is for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. Our group visits historic sites and hears from survivors and prominent scholars.

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  • Berlin Summer Academy: The Holocaust and Present-day Jewish Life in Germany

    July 15-22, 2012
    A summer study program in Berlin, Germany, for U.S. public secondary school teachers in cooperation with the Education Division of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

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  • Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies Eighth International Conference on Holocaust Education

    Telling the Story Teaching the Core: Holocaust Education for the 21st Century
    June 18-21, 2012

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  • The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies Berlin, Humboldt University

    The Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish Studies, based at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, is open to international applications for the 2012 summer session (July 5 to August 17). The application deadline is January 15, 2012.

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  • Commemorating Controversy: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

    Speaker Series
    January 4,5,10,17,24,26, 2012
    4:00-5:30pm
    Linnaeus Arboretum, Gustavus Adolphus College campus.
    All lectures are free and open to the public.

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  • Applications Being Taken for Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellow: A Bridge To History

    The Auschwitz Jewish Center Fellows Program is a three week study trip
    for students who are matriculated in graduate programs or are completing
    undergraduate degrees in 2012 in Holocaust studies and related fields.

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  • Jungle Theater Presents I Am My Own Wife

    I Am My Own Wife
    By Doug Wright
    Directed by Joel Sass
    Starring Bradley Greenwald
    Now through December 18, 2011
    The Jungle Theater

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  • Holocaust Survivor, Doctor Robert Fisch's "Metamorphosis to Freedom" Exhibition Now on Display

    Now through December 5
    Normandale Community College
    9700 France Ave S
    Bloomington, MN

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  • Premiere theatrical production looks at life between friends in Nazi occupied Poland

    Our Class
    By Tadeusz Slobodzianek
    October 29 - November 20, 2011
    Minnesota Jewish Theater Company

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  • Ghost Stories: Five Writers Read Works on Historical Trauma

    Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011
    7:00 p.m.
    Homewood Studios, 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis 55411

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  • Harbin's Death Factory & Germ Warfare in the Asian Pacific

    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    Sunday Nov 6, 2011
    Weyerhaeuser Hall
    Macalester College

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  • Meet Eric Irivuzumugabe, author and Rwandan genocide survivor

    Friday, October 28, 4:00 p.m.
    University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union.

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  • CHGS Photo Exhibit: Maxine Rude Displaced Europe 1945-1946 on display at the Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida

    November 1- January 12, 2012

    The Holocaust Memorial and Resource Education Center of Florida are displaying the work of photographer Maxine Rude. Rude was a photographer for the United States Army and then for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The organization was formed to help the approximately 21 million people displaced throughout war-torn Europe.

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  • Laughing with Traumas: Humor about the Holocaust in Contemporary German and Israeli Popular Culture

    A Talk by Ofer Ashkenazi, Ph.D.
    Wednesday, October 19
    11:45-1p.m.
    Room 1210 Heller Hall

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  • Art Exhibition "A Hole In Time" unites a local artist and Holocaust survivor to tell the story of pre-war Jewish Poland

    August 31 - October 16
    Special Artist Reception
    Tuesday, October 4, 7:00 pm.
    St. Paul JCC

    Susan Weinberg, an internationally exhibited artist, combines her passion for genealogy and cultural history in this two-part exhibit "A Hole in Time," developed through a partnership with local Holocaust survivor and educator Dora Zaidenweber and "The Silence Speaks Loudly" inspired by time spent in Vilnius,Lithuania.

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  • Art Exhibition: The Old Wooden Synagogues of Lithuania

    Friday, September 23 - Friday, December 30, 2011
    Architecture & Landscape Architecture Library
    210 Rapson Hall
    Artist Joyce Ellen Weinstein

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  • New MA program in Holocaust Studies

    The University of Haifa is pleased to announce the opening of the MA program in Holocaust Studies that will be taught in English, for 2012-2013 academic year.

    This is the only graduate program in Holocaust Studies that is taught in Israel and is unique in its multidisciplinary curriculum and approach. It is dedicated to the creation and nurturing of a new generation of Holocaust researchers. Its aim is to provide them with a well rounded curriculum from a wide variety of disciplines and subjects (history, social psychology, anthropology, genocide and international law, literature and more), diverse methodologies and essential languages.

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  • Lucien Philipe Moretti Lithographs on display at St. Paul Church

    Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in St. Paul is displaying THE ART OF LUCIEN MORETTI: OCCUPATION OF PARIS in September as part of "Blessed are the Peace-Makers" month.

    This series relates to the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II. Some scenes are lyrical, while others focus on the chaos of war and the victimization of the Jews.

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  • Internships now available at the Galicia Jewish Museum

    The Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland is looking for interns.

    For more information please read the attached file.

    Galicia Jewish Museum internship programme.pdf

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  • Submit a Community Event

    In an effort to better publicize community events on our website and on our listserv, we have created a Community Events form. If you are a non-campus organization planning an event or program related to our mission, please submit this form for review.

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  • Watch free online world premiere of Raindrops Over Rwanda

    Monday, July 18, 2011
    SnagFilms

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  • Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies

    The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is offering a limited number of fellowships for Ph.D. candidates pursuing studies of the Holocaust.

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  • Ghost Stories: Five Writers Read Works on Historical Trauma

    Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6 PM
    Amherst H. Wilder Center
    451 Lexington Pkwy N, St. Paul

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